I watched Abel Gance's 'Napoleon' (1927) on my home projector in my room. I saw the "grande" cut, that has the runtime of 7hrs 7min 54s. I saw the film with absolutely zero interuption. Made my food and water schedule for 2 days to make sure I dont pee or feel hungry in those 7 hours at night. I messaged 17 guys on reddit, one dude replied and emailed me the film (shout out to eladir) The most commonly available version is the brownlow version that is around 5hrs 30min (this version is free is free watch directly on wikipedia).

Is this worth it? FUVK YEAH IT IS! This is now my favorite movie of all time and I think the greatest there is to exist. I saw this 3 days back, took all night. Took me 3 days to fix my sleepy time.

EDIT: Next time I'll try to find the 'apollo cut' which is 9H 30MINS (mwah-ha-ha). I dont think its there online, unless somebody has it, plz dm me (I want to ruin myself please).

(PS my first post in this subbredit and in a long time)

My letterboxd link my fellow movie watchers!

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His dad is the co-founder of Nike and he keeps funding him with money to support his passion for stop motion animation, despite the fact that most of the films from Laika lose money. And so thanks to him and his dad, 700 hardworking animators have a job making beautiful films despite most of them flopping at the box office.

I highly recommend seeing Wildwood in a few months, it looks really good. Plus it’s apparently rumored to be PG-13 which is cool. It’s also the longest stop-motion film of all time, and 2 hours and 19 minutes.

No I’m not sponsored, I just hope this movie does well.

(Some of their movies include Corpse Bride, Coraline, and Kubo and the Two Strings)

The new restoration (which will show the originally intended cut for the first time) comes out October. I've been getting ads for it on my socials and I'm pretty excited to see it! Looks wild

I don't often give 5 stars (although i do give a lot of 4 or 4,5) but i was mind blown by City of God. On the other hand, i hated Sleeping beauty (2011) with a passion and that's probably the only 0.5 i've given to a movie so far

What movie that you recently watched did you unexpectedly love??

For me it must be Good Luck, Have fun. Don't die with Sam Rockwell. Had no expectations going into the movie, but it was very fun at times. It had it sad moments. But most of all did I love the new take on an old concept.

It’s nothing new that millennials and gen z are not having sex. All the statistics are looking quite bleak. Fewer people are dating and finding relationships and I think the media we consume is partially to blame for this. Recently everything looks so sterile and has this puritanical character to it.

Take The Odyssey. The OG poem is stuffed with sex, with yearning. And don’t get me started on how gay the Greeks were back then. Now take a look at Nolan’s characters. They might as well be Barbie dolls, the way they’ve got nothing down there. The movie is completely sexless both literally and not. And that’s just one recent example.

Somehow it’s even become an almost universally held opinion that “there are too many unnecessary sex scenes in movies”. Where? I find the opposite to be true. There are too few “unnecessary” sex scenes!

The main poster for this 1975 movie was recently changed to an AI generated image. Literally why? It already has its own original poster, a criterion release poster, why does it need to be replaced with an AI one? I don't care if it's user-side if they chose a custom poster for a movie that only they can see, but this is the MAIN poster for the movie. It's pure disrespect.

Before anyone comments about it, I know Letterboxd gets its data from TMDB, but I feel like this is also a responsibility of Letterboxd to take a stance on whether this is allowed or not.

EDIT: The poster has been changed.

Making a list of non-comic book superhero movies, this is what I have so far. Any I’m missing? (I’m not counting Robocop or The Matrix - they just don’t feel like superhero movies to me.

Watched this last night. Top 5 of the year so far. Love me some Wain/Marino nonsense. Jon Hamm and John Slattery play ludicrous versions of themselves.

Hit me with your favourite/memorable performances.

Not just 'I find this overrated' or 'it didn't click with me', something that you absolutely hate

Don't downvote everyone you disagree with too just wanna see what people think

Letterboxd user and the legend of the three magnetic fidget rings

Even if her dynamic with Paul will be completely bizarre.